Budapest tips · History and culture
Hungarian brains, mostly abroad
Many Nobel Prizes, few won at home.
We are very proud of our Nobel Prizes: probably among the highest counts per capita in the world. Almost none were won in Hungary, though. The experiments needed money the country didn't have, and these geniuses found a warmer welcome abroad.
Vitamin C, first isolated from Hungarian paprika, is one of the Nobel-winning discoveries.
The ballpoint pen was invented by a Hungarian.
So was the Rubik's Cube.
And at least partially, the hydrogen bomb and the computer were invented by Hungarians as well.
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